by Richard Greatrex | Aug 12, 2024 | Image Essays
Blog # 12 I see this painting and I see only an enigma.I’m rather partial to the word enigma. I also am attracted to segway, moribund, caveat, perfidious and vertiginous. These words are so full of themselves. They rush forward with their meanings, trying to...
by Richard Greatrex | Jul 31, 2024 | Image Essays
BLOG # 11 A photograph. . . Ivor Stravinsky, composer of the Rites of Spring, discordant to some, for others the wonderful beginning of modern music. The Rites of Spring was created in 1913, a period when so many of the arts were blooming into the Modern before being...
by Richard Greatrex | Jul 16, 2024 | Image Essays
BLOG # 10 I know a little about this photograph. Well actually I know a little about it’s a backstory, it’s genesis. For the moment I will try and put that to one side and look again at the image. A window. Open I guess since I see no reflective glass. An...
by Richard Greatrex | Jul 3, 2024 | Image Essays
DEGAS A DANCE LESSON BLOG # 9 So much to look at, full of action and yet stillness, full of details, observed, a tuned eye, a seeing eye, an honest eye. The painting is not of a grand performance but rather of effort, hard work and stamina. He has a human eye, an eye...
by Richard Greatrex | Jun 19, 2024 | Image Essays
BLOG # 8 It’s raining. Warm but wet. The kind of wet that seeps into your skin without apparently affecting your clothing. The crowd are oblivious to the mizzle, a typically English reaction I expect. I’m sitting here. To my right Rich, Son in Law. To my...
by Richard Greatrex | Jun 5, 2024 | Image Essays
BLOG # 7 The coat was of course cloth, where hair stuck throughholes in his hood.. . .toes stuck through his shoes,hose hung loose, rough mittens with worn outfingers covered in mud and who himself wassmeared in mud. Is this a text for the photograph ?. . . . No, a...
